Photos of the day 05/05

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A family fleeing the fighting in the besieged Libyan city of Misrata looks at the ship that transported them to Benghazi, Libya. Rodrigo Abd/AP

Kids and their parents, including some who survived the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan, pull an All Nippon Airways Boeing 767 during a tug of war held as part of the 'cheer up northeastern Japan' events at Tokyo's Haneda Airport, on Children's Day, a national holiday. Koji Sasahara/AP

Sandor Kepiro, a 97-year-old former gendarme officer charged with involvement in the killing of civilians in Serbia in 1942, sits in a courtroom in Budapest, Hungary, as his trial begins. Kepiro has denied any wrongdoing. His sign reads: You are the killers of a 97-year old man. Laszlo Balogh/Reuters

United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, (l.), speaks to US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton before the start of the Opening Ministerial at the Second Contact Group Meeting on Libya, in Rome. Jacquelyn Martin/AP

A girl grazes her sheep near the compound where al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed early Monday by US forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Erik de Castro/Reuters

Chinese fashion designer Yang Lifei adjusts a copy of the wedding dress of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, at her studio in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China. Yang originally made a copy of the gown for a British TV channel. After the dress was completed, her small wedding dress business received more than half a dozen orders. Carlos Barria/Reuters

Steam rises off a horse as it gets a bath after a morning workout at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. Charlie Riedel/AP

Hollywood Houghton, from N.J., holds an American flag outside the World Trade Center site before the visit of US President Barack Obama in New York. Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, the man behind the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center, was killed when elite Navy SEALs stormed his compound in Pakistan on Monday. Shannon Stapleton/Reuters

A cricket fan displays a message to Pakistan's batsman Ahmed Shehzad during the fifth and final one-day international cricket match against the West Indies in Georgetown, Guyana. Andres Leighton/AP

Hwang Woo-jin cools himself off in a fountain in front of Seoul's City Hall. May 5 is Children's Day, a national holiday in South Korea. Ahn Young-joon/AP

A cat looks at demonstrators shouting slogans during a march by animal rights activists in Bucharest, Romania. A parliamentary committee has passed a draft law that says stray dogs can be killed. Protesters called for stray dogs to be sterilized, saying it is cheaper and more humane. Romania has long had a problem with stray dogs, with an estimated 30,000 of them in the capital alone. Vadim Ghirda/AP

Anti-government protestors shout slogans during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen. Yemen, which is currently wracked by the popular protests against the country's deeply unpopular president, is also home to one of the most active branches of al-Qaeda, which has planned several attacks against the US. Hani Mohammed/AP

US President Barack Obama talks with firefighters at the Engine 54 Ladder 4 firehouse in Times Square during a visit to the World Trade Center site in New York. The firehouse lost 15 fire fighters during the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings on September 11, 2001. Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

Mujtaba pushes a pedestrian in a wheelbarrow from one side of a road to the other after a rainstorm caused flooding in Kabul, Afghanistan. Mujtaba charges 10 Afghanis, or 22 cents US, per person for the ride. Musadeq Sadeq/AP

Pakistani paramilitary troops use sticks to eradicate a poppy field in Gulistan in Pakistan's Balochistan province near the Afghan border. Shah Khalid/AP

Grounds crew ready the field prior to a baseball game at Fenway Park in Boston. Less than 12 hours after the Los Angeles Angels' rain-delayed 5-3 win in 13 innings over the Boston Red Sox, the teams meet again in their series finale. Elise Amendola/AP

Army musicians stand in front of a World War II monument in Russia's southern city of Volgograd, once known as Stalingrad. Russia prepares to mark the 66th anniversary of the 1945 victory over Nazi Germany on May 9. Stalingrad saw perhaps the greatest number of casualties in the history of warfare during its long 1942 seige. Sergey Karpov/Reuters

Bethanie Mattek-Sands of the US eyes the ball as she returns it to Francesca Schiavone of Italy during their Madrid Open tennis match in Madrid. Susana Vera/Reuters

Close ties between the US and South Korea could become less so under new governments in both countries. The ouster provides an opening for the center-left South Korean opposition, which has criticized trade and military ties with the US.

South Korea’s parliament impeached President Park Geun-hye on Friday for her role in an influence-peddling scandal, with well over the required two-thirds majority of lawmakers – including dozens of members of her own party – voting to oust her.